Hunters brought village groups together to haul mattresses, scrap metal and other dumped waste up a difficult slope.
Someone went to the trouble of taking chairs, mattresses and scrap metal into woodland near Agros. Thankfully, others were willing to make the much harder journey: carrying it all back out.
Members of the Agros Hunting Association rallied volunteers from groups across the village after discovering a wooded slope littered with bulky rubbish, plastics and building rubble.
What should have been a patch of countryside had become someone’s unofficial dumping ground. The villagers decided to do something about it.
The association shared photographs of the cleanup on social media, describing an effort that involved repeated trips up and down the slope to retrieve the waste.
This was no quick litter pick. Some stretches were difficult to get through, making the job of moving bulky objects even harder. Volunteers collected the discarded materials and loaded them into double-cab vehicles.
The result was a community effort built on a simple idea: their countryside deserved better
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Alongside the photographs, the hunters appealed to people to respect the work and let the association know if they witnessed dumping or knew who was responsible.
Illegal dumping is a familiar frustration in Cyprus, where unwanted furniture, construction waste and household rubbish too often end up beside roads or among trees. Beyond spoiling the view, dumped materials can also create fire hazards.
In Agros, the response brought people together across village groups, turning frustration into a practical task, and a difficult task into a shared achievement.
The volunteers have done the heavy lifting. Keeping the spot clean now calls for something considerably easier: taking rubbish where it belongs.
